Preventing the birth of humans with less desirable traits is the definition of eugenics, isn't it?
The case of rape is not comparable nor a precedent since the very act of conceiving involves a violation of the body and free will of the victim.
Did I miss the Zika virus exception in Humanae Vitae?
Next up for the Pope : abortion ok if you had zika while pregnant and you think the baby may be affected.
Except he didn’t approve of it. He gave a lengthy response about the subject going into depths about what is a “lesser evil” which the media doesn’t care about. He still said it was wrong.
However, the media knows the majority of the public won’t question the headline and soon everyone will accept that it was fact that the Pope said you can abort babies with genetic abnormalities.
Wouldn’t it be more efficient for him to advocate abortion of the babies deemed defective, instead of contracepting to prevent all babies, including healthy ones? At least he was careful to not suggest abstinence for a season. /s
Insane! How many Souls is he not misleading... May God Correct him.
Isn’t contraception kind like a wall?
This Pope is a fool... and Saint John Paul II must be rolling over in his grave.
I thought abstinence was the only method of birth control for Catholics.
Shouldn’t abstinence also be the safest, surest method of preventing disease?
Condoms fail & come off. Body fluids don’t conveniently confine themselves to the area of the condom.
How is risking the life of your child on a $1 condom good advice?
This is bad, bad health advice.
My sister and her husband are both carriers of a genetic disease called Niemann-Pic Type C, and have lost 2 children at age 10 from this disease. Granted, it’s rare and not an epidemic, but how is the Zika virus worse than this?
The case of the Belgian nuns in the Congo in 1960 involved vowed celibate women who were in remote mission stations threatened by rape in the course of the war. They were not choosing any sex act at all. Therefore they were not committing the sin of contraception.
In the case of rape, the rapist's semen can legitimately be considered an extension of his invasion of your body. There is no sin in limiting this invasion.
This is utterly unlike abortion, because abortion involves not the rapist, but another person: a conceived child. In no way can you legitimately target and destroy the child.
It's also different from the sin of contraception, because it does not involve planning/hoping for a sterilized sexual act. The medical missionary nuns in the Congo mission stations didn't plan, hope for, choose, or want any sexual act at all.
As for married Catholics who have a legitimate reason to want to postpone pregnancy, --- like, possibly, say the wife has a Zika infection which could do teratogenic damage if she conceived a child--- the only morally legitimate way to postpone pregnancy to a safer time, is periodic or temporary abstinence from intercourse.
Pope Francis should make this clear. If he does not --- or if the media do not report all the nuances --- then <>we've got to get out there and make this clear.
Predicted it along with abortion, gay rights, etc. ... sounds like another Progressive shill.
“Is the Pope Catholic” used to be a rhetorical question.